Screen printing for Specimen

For my Specimen, my plan was to have my typeface screen printed in regular and light on the other side (front has digitally printed poster on). However, my screen printing process was not as successful as i'd hoped.

I found getting the screen prepared was easy but time consuming at the same time; stripping and washing the screen, leaving it to dry, coating with emulsion, exposing the screen, washing off the emulsion. The part that I found challenging was the actual printing, I decided to experiment first with printing my typeface screen onto separate A2 paper sheets to see how they'd turn out.

I was glad I did some practice designs first before printing straight onto my A1 poster. This was because the prints weren't turning out as clean and crisp as I wanted, as it was my first time screen printing. Certain letters and shapes were turning out grainy each time instead of solid black;

However, I still created some successful initial prints as well;

In conclusion, I decided not to screen print my typeface onto the other side of my A1 digitally printed poster as I didn't want to take the risk of ruining it if the print went wrong, also I think that the poster looks great on its own and the typeface is already shown on it.

The screen prints will work as separate posters to display my typeface.